A. H. Tewfik

University of Minnesota, USA

Ahmed Tewfik received his B.S. degree from
Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1982
and his M.S., E.E., and S.D. degrees from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, in 1984, 1985, and 1987,
respectively. Dr. Tewfik has worked at Alphatech,
Inc., Burlington, MA, in 1987. He
is the E. F. Johnson Professor of electronic
communications with the Department of
Electrical Engineering at the University of
Minnesota. He served as a Consultant to MTS Systems, Inc., Eden
Prairie, MN, and Rosemount, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN, and worked
with Texas Instruments and Computing Devices International.
From August 1997 to August 2001, he was the President and CEO
of Cognicity, Inc., an entertainment marketing software tools publisher
that he cofounded. Dr. Tewfik is a Fellow of the IEEE. He
was a distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
in 1997–1999. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Award in
2000.